Dawn (Q5962062)

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movement: academic art (Q189458)
genre: mythological painting (Q3374376) nude (Q40446) allegory (Q2839016)
artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (Q483992)
collection: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
location: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
country of origin: France (Q142)
owned by: Goupil & Co (Q942370) Samuel Putnam Avery (Q3819081) Charles J. Osborn (Q18536504) American Art Association (Q16961275) Joseph Raphael De Lamar (Q6286486) American Art Association (Q16961275)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
location of final assembly: France (Q142)
exhibition history: Bouguereau & America (Q87194638)
depicts: woman (Q467) see-through clothing (Q7445455) waist-length hair (Q14130) red hair (Q152357) scarf (Q191022) nudity (Q10791) dance (Q11639) pubic hair removal (Q1544759) navel (Q43801) breast (Q9103) areola (Q843533) nipple (Q188641) flower (Q506) Aurora (Q178831) twilight (Q164160) morning (Q7722) armpit (Q499) sense of smell (Q1541064) puddle (Q152841) rural area (Q175185) specular reflection (Q1079524) sky (Q527) dawn (Q11326182) suiting (Q3715160) chestnut hair (Q5094009) body of water (Q15324) artificial pond (Q3253281) water lily (Q3347071)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: http://www.artsbma.org/pieces/laurore-dawn/

information from the Birmingham Museum of Art catalog

description: Aurora, or Dawn, was one of Bouguereau's most acclaimed works. It is the first in a series of canvases representing the four Times of Day: the others were Dusk in 1882; Night in 1883; and Day in 1884. Allegorical representations of the four Times of Day date back at least to the Renaissance period. Bouguereau's

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